CD REVIEWS

Powertrip - Nightmare Logic
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Southern Lord Records
Year : 2017
Today is your lucky day
Following the release of their superb debut album ‘Manifest Decimation’, Power Trip have returned 4 years later with their follow up album ‘Nightmare Logic’. The fact that ‘Manifest Decimation’ was that good had

Lillye - Reinventing the Deal
Review By Michael Aronovitz
Virginia Lillye is the lead vocalist for the breakout band Lillye, and when we get our hands on their debut album Evolve, scheduled for worldwide release through Eclipse Records May 18th, 2018, it will be the glorious unveiling of a bizarre superstar. Virginia

Dream Ocean - Lost Love Symphony
Review by Rainer Kerber
Dream Ocean was founded in 2009 by mezzo soprano Basak Ylva and guitarist Oz Khan. In the same year also the first demo "Missing" was published. Living in Germany since 2017, the first full-length album "Lost Love Symphony" has now been completed.

For me Judas Priest is the definition of Heavy metal and a band i been fan of for 40 years. They and Black Sabbath
was the two bands who really got me into metal. Firepower is the bands 16th studioalbum in their soon 50 year old career
and it is a good

MHF & Alpha Omega Partners for a New Management
ALPHA OMEGA Management and METALHEADS FOREVER Announcing The Birth Of Their Worldwide Management Network!
ALPHA OMEGA Management is extremely happy to announce transformation into a real worldwide network, probably the first-ever one, composed by hundreds and hundreds of collaborators throughout the world, coordinated

Sons Of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : InsideOut Music
Year : 2017
Opus Maximus
It’s nothing new, another year and Mike Portnoy announces a new band/project in some seemingly vain attempt to capture the former glory of Dream Theater. So here we are, 2017 and enter Sons of

Anvil - Plugged In Permanent
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : SPV/Steamhammer Records
Year : 1996
Crank it to 11
Lips has stated in several interviews that if it wasn’t for Germany and Scandinavia during the 90’s then Anvil would have gone their separate ways. It was these countries love of heavy metal

Corrosion Of Conformity - No Cross, No Crown
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Nuclear Blast Records
Year : 2018
Corrosion of Conformity find their stride again
It’s been awhile since Corrosion of Conformity (CoC) have fully been together under an ‘original line-up’ guise, but since their self-titled album in 2014, the band

Visions Of Atlantis - The Deep & The Dark
Album Review by Rainer Kerber
In December 2013, Thomas Caser, the last remaining founding member of the Austrian symphonic metal band Visions of Atlantis, announced drastic lineup changes to his band. Because he no longer agreed with the stylistic development of the band,

Anvil - Pound for Pound
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : SPV/Steamhammer
Year : 1988
Pounding the world
By the late 80’s, Anvil should have been capitalising on their frankly, brilliant albums, however a lacklustre first release on a major label in 1987 with ‘Strength of Steel’ applied unwanted pressure as their peers

Motorhead - Rock N Roll
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : GWR Records
Year : 1987
Oh Lord, look down upon these people of Motörhead
The tides had turned for Motörhead, the decade had begun at the top of their game with ‘Ace of Spades’, but by 1987, the band had lost its

Cavalera Conspiracy - Psychosis
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Napalm Records
Year : 2017
From beneath the underground slums of a Third World…
The best thing about Cavalera Conspiracy is that it is Max and Igor doing what they are good at and what they do best. There is no pressure with

Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Sire Records
Year : 1992
Connect the God Damn Dots!
Following the success of ‘The Land of Rape and Honey’ and ‘The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste’, Ministry continued their drug

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Earache Records
Year : 1992
Where Next to Conquer?
By 1992, Bolt Thrower had established themselves as the authority on military themed death metal. Taking their album title from the failed Fourth Crusade in which the Christian Crusaders decided to pillage

Anvil - Worth The Weight
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : SPV/Steamhammer
Year : 1992
An overlooked gem in the Anvil catalogue
After a steady stream of albums and back to back releases of ‘Strength of Steel’ and ‘Pound for Pound’, Anvil took some time to release their next album and as always

Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
Album Review by Adam McCann
Label : Century Media Records
Year : 2018
The Sun is Eclipsed by the Wolf
Watain have carried the torch of true black metal since the turn of the millennium and now 18 years on, the band have delivered their sixth album ‘Trident Wolf

Apparition - The Awakening
Album Review by Rainer Kerber
The history of Apparition dates back to 1997. Bassist David Homer started a band project with female vocals. Only from 2004 there were also live performances as a real band. Two years later, the album debut "Drowned In Questions" was released. During this

Armored Dawn - Barbarians In Black
Album Review by Rainer Kerber
In Heavy / Power Metal from Brazil one thinks inevitably of Angra, Sepultura, Almah or Shaman. For several years, the country in South America has another hot Power Metal to offer export, Armored Dawn from the southeast located city of Sao

Saxon
Thunderbolt
Silver Lining Music
2018
The God’s Have Sent a Sign
For England, Saxon should be considered a national treasure, against the tides of time they have held the vanguard regardless of trends and heavy metal fads. Debatably, this thankless task has often led to Saxon becoming overlooked in the community, but gratefully

Imperious – Tales Of Woe - The Journey Of Odysseus, Parts I + II
Review By David Kerber
Published for the first time in 2015 (part 1) and 2016 (part 2), Imperious are now releasing their Tales Of Woe double strike on an official label. Well, I'm not the biggest Black Metal